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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Lively for Massachusetts Governor?

Oh boy. You remember Scott Lively, the absolutely deranged “ex-gay” activist who claims that gays are responsible for Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust? He’s actually thinking about running for governor of Massachusetts, which would be more fun than I might be able to stand.

Pastor Scott Lively of Springfield today announced the formation of a committee to explore the possibility of a run for the governorship of Massachusetts. A fifth generation Bay Stater, born and raised in the Village of Shelburne Falls, Pastor Lively was for many years a Christian missionary and social activist in various parts of the world, based primarily in Oregon and California…

Pastor Lively is an internationally recognized authority on biblical values in public policy, serving as an educator, trainer and consultant to church, community and government leaders in more than 30 countries, and as a media figure in more than 700 radio and television interviews here at home. He is known as the “Father of the Ugandan Homosexual Movement” for his work in that country, and his efforts in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Baltics have strengthened both the Christian church and social resistance to the homosexualization of those regions.

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What’s with the “Father of the Ugandan Homosexual Movement”. Does this mean he started gay rights activism in Uganda or that he started anti-gay activism there? If the later then I hope he is on record as to his views on state sponsored murder.

He can’t be as much fun as Neal “Mule-Fucker” Horsley, who sought the governorship in my home state.
Well, I guess Neal is OK in fundie eyes — as long as it wasn’t a boy mule. ‘Cause that’d just be gross.

I did a find command at the page Ed links to and found no reference to his considering a run as a Republican. From my perspective whatever party he decides to affiliate with in his exploration/run will only smear that brand.

He was the instigator of the “kill the gays” bill in Uganda, and has spoken to their parliament several times over the last couple of years to promote it. Much of the Talibangelical activity in Africa over the last decade can be traced, directly or indirectly, to him.

@matty1: He gave a major speech (the “nuclear” speech) right before the Anti-Homosexuality Act was drafted. Lively swears up and down that they were already planning it, but the African gay rights movement puts the blame squarely on him. He certainly deserves it.

Here’s a RWW article about Lively’s involvement in Uganda’s “pro-family” movement. Short version: He claims that he doesn’t favor the death penalty for homosexuals, but the “harsh statues” in places like Uganda are necessary to protect those countries from George Soros and his filthy sexual revolution. Lively would personally prefer imprisonment with reparative therapy, basically treating being gay like driving drunk.

“He’s actually thinking about running for governor of Massachusetts, which would be more fun than I might be able to stand.”

Not if the dems are stupid/arrogant/beholden enough to run Martha Coakley, again. She had her ass handed to her by Scott Brown, who is a piece of shit and a lying fuckbag–you might see where I’m going with my estimation of Ms. Coakley’s character–when he ran for Dead Ted’s, supposedly ultra-safe, senate seat.

There are dozens of dems who barely have a pulse that are better candidates than Coakley would be.

Some years ago Canadian comedian Rick Mercer launched a petition calling for a referendum on whether then Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day should have to change his first name to Doris. Someone needs to do this with LIvely. Only in his case he would have to change his last name to Deadly, given how many African gays might die because of his bullshit.

Actually, it is my information that, before the primary that selected Ms. Coakley, she looked like a good candidate, based on her record as a prosecutor. The only complaint I heard about her before then was her failure to prosecute Cardinal Law for his part in the Raping Children Church scandal. Her excuse was that there was no law in Massachusett relative to a charge of accessory after the fact. I’m sure that a resourceful prosecutor could have found other charges to level against him if he/she was serious about putting the piece of filth in the slammer.

As someone who lives in Western MA, I have to say that I’m torn by whether I think its the best idea ever or if it would depress me too much to see how many of my fellow residents would actually listen to this asshole. Coakley isn’t worse than Mark Roosevelt who they ran in 94 against Bill Weld! But she’s definitely not going to win in any contest against any half decent Republican. Especially with the frankly abysmal job Decal Patrick has done. I credit him for one thing-disillusioning me about a hopey-changy candidate before Obama came along.